July 16, 2026
Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman
EECS professor and Associate Provost of BA&SC Victoria Coleman joined Space News for an episode of their Space Minds podcast.
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July 6, 2026
UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery…
May 26, 2026
Human connection emphasized at CDSS undergraduate student commencement
On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies at the Greek Theatre to recognize more than 2,000 students graduating from the college with bachelor of arts degrees in computer science, data science and statistics. CS…
May 15, 2026
Can a Computer Scientist Still Hope?
CS Professor Armando Fox is featured in this Q/A from the California Education Learning Lab’s Substack. The conversation is a reflective piece that examines the existential and ethical crisis facing the field of computer science in the age of Generative AI.
April 7, 2026
UC Berkeley computer and electrical engineering, computer science, statistics graduate programs rank highly
UC Berkeley’s graduate programs in computer and electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics continue to receive high rankings by U.S. News & World Report, according to the 2026 rankings released April 7. The following rankings were given to Berkeley graduate programs:…
March 23, 2026
John DeNero and Arjun Singh recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards
Two members of the EECS community have been recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards: EECS Teaching Professor John DeNero will receive the 2026 Fiat Lux Faculty Award, and Arjun Singh, CS Ph.D. ’16, will receive the Mark Bingham Award…
March 19, 2026
Narges Norouzi selected as NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellow
Narges Norouzi has been named an NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellow, selected to serve as an ambassador for advancing AI education along with 24 fellows from across the United States. Norouzi is associate dean for students at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data…
January 20, 2026
UC Berkeley professors explore new ways to integrate AI in engineering courses
Narges Norouzi and John DeNero, associate teaching professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences, have developed Askademia, a context-aware system that responds to student questions in real-time during both live lectures and asynchronous viewing. To deliver fast, accurate answers, Askademia draws from the latest instructor audio and…
December 16, 2025
Randy Katz receives honorary doctorate from University of Crete
EECS Professor Emeritus Randy Katz will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete. The honorary doctorate is a distinction awarded by the University of Crete to recognize outstanding achievements in scholarship, science, and societal impact.
December 12, 2025
WIRED: Coding Support with Sarah Chasins
UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World Wide Web still exist online? Can someone still learn programming if they hate math? How do…